开放世界角色扮演游戏《赛博朋克2077》将拍衍生动画剧集《Cyberpunk: Edgerunners》,2022年在Netflix上线,Studio Trigger和CD Projekt Red制作,今石洋之执导,共10集。动画剧聚焦一个街头成长的孩子在科技泛滥的城市中挣扎求生,成为了一个雇佣兵即edgerunner/cyberpunk。
Synopsis
In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato ponders: what would happen if one of the prisoners managed to free themselves from their chains and escape from the cave? What if that prisoner were Jay, a little 7-year-old boy?
Director’s statement
What lies behind the daily movement of a city? Last winter, we met in Paris and began discussing the Allegory of the Cave, as told in Plato’s Republic. The myth imagines humanity living in chains, facing the back of a cave, and watching shadows move on the walls, thinking it is reality. We both work with images, which certainly can be illusions, but can also become instruments of struggle and liberation of thought. So, from this discussion, we decided to create a short film. We had a few fixed ideas—the cave, the dance, the city bustling around us—and one question: what would happen if we all managed to turn together towards the exit of the cave? Perhaps it is not enough to assert that images are illusions as long as the chains that bind us are real.